Thanks for your suggestion.
We will see, if more people ask for this.

When browsing around in WinSCP it happens too often that instead of open the folder it will trigger the inplace renaming.

I haven't found a way to disable it, so could you add an option to disable inplace renaming?

If I want to rename a folder/file I can always use F2 or the context menu, so there is no need for the inplace renaming.